PSALM 120

Prayer for Deliverance from the Treacherous.

A Song of †Ascents.

1 aIn my trouble I cried to the Lord,

And He answered me.

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from alying lips,

From a bdeceitful tongue.

3 What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,

You adeceitful tongue?

4 aSharp arrows of the warrior,

With the burning bcoals of the broom tree.

5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in aMeshech,

For I dwell among the btents of cKedar!

6 Too long has my soul had its dwelling

With those who ahate peace.

7 I aam for peace, but when I speak,

They are bfor war.

PSALM 121

The Lord the Keeper of Israel.

A Song of Ascents.

1 I will alift up my eyes to bthe mountains;

From where shall my help come?

2 My ahelp comes from the Lord,

Who bmade heaven and earth.

3 He will not aallow your foot to slip;

He who bkeeps you will not slumber.

4 Behold, He who keeps Israel

Will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is your akeeper;

The Lord is your bshade on your right hand.

6 The asun will not smite you by day,

Nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will 1aprotect you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

8 The Lord will 1aguard your going out and your coming in

bFrom this time forth and forever.

PSALM 122

Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

1 I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us ago to the house of the Lord.”

2 Our feet are standing

Within your agates, O Jerusalem,

3 Jerusalem, that is abuilt

As a city that is bcompact together;

4 To which the tribes ago up, even the tribes of 1the Lord—

2An ordinance for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

5 For there athrones were set for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the apeace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who blove you.

7 “May peace be within your awalls,

And prosperity within your bpalaces.”

8 For the sake of my abrothers and my friends,

I will now say, “bMay peace be within you.”

9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

I will aseek your good.

PSALM 123

Prayer for the Lord’s Help.

A Song of Ascents.

1 To You I alift up my eyes,

O You who bare enthroned in the heavens!

2 Behold, as the eyes of aservants look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

So our beyes look to the Lord our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

3 aBe gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly filled bwith contempt.

4 Our soul is greatly filled

With the ascoffing of bthose who are at ease,

And with the ccontempt of the proud.